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Frank Esser

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University of Zurich

Switzerland

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Frank Esser is an Associate Professor at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. His research primarily focuses on media systems, misinformation, and news recommender systems, as demonstrated in his recent articles that explore user perceptions, media trust, and the impact of disinformation during crises such as COVID-19. He has also contributed to the discourse on alternative media and media fragmentation through comparative studies across various countries.

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University of Leeds

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Changing the norms of citizenship? Attitude, platforms and crisis-driven shifts in 17 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

Measuring resilience to misinformation: a multilevel framework illustrated in the west African context

Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms—Introduction to the Special Issue

Can AI-Attributed News Challenge Partisan News Selection? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment

A multilevel network approach to revealing patterns of online political selective exposure

Is Sensationalist Disinformation More Effective? Three Facilitating Factors at the National, Individual, and Situational Level

How do Healthy Political Discussions Invigorate Online Participation? Evidence from 17 European Countries

Identifying the Drivers Behind the Dissemination of Online Misinformation: A Study on Political Attitudes and Individual Characteristics in the Context of Engaging With Misinformation on Social Media

Introduction: Public Communication in Freefall

The limits of social media as a source of political information during routine and crisis times across 17 countries

Opportunity structures for user acceptance of news recommender systems (NRS): A multi-country survey study of relationships between individual-level factors and evaluations of NRS

User Perceptions of News Recommender Systems and Trust in Media Outlets: A Five-Country Study

A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems

Why do Citizens Choose to Read Fact-Checks in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine? The Role of Directional and Accuracy Motivations in Nineteen Democracies

Justifying an Invasion: When Is Disinformation Successful?

Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology

When Worlds Collide: Journalistic, Market, and Tech Logics in the Adoption of News Recommender Systems

The sharing of disinformation in cross-national comparison: analyzing patterns of resilience

When Worlds Collide: Journalistic, Market, and Tech Logics in the Adoption of News Recommender Systems

News recommender systems: a programmatic research review

Marlis Prinzing & Roger Blum (Hrsg.). Handbuch Politischer Journalismus

Perceived prevalence of misinformation fuels worries about COVID-19: a cross-country, multi-method investigation

What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter

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Katy Parry

Ana S Cardenal

Alexandre Bovet

Sebastián Valenzuela

Julie Firmstone

Peter Van Aelst

Marina Tulin

Edina Strikovic

Agnieszka Stępińska

Aleksandra Urman

Darren Lilleker

Toril Aalberg

Christian Schemer

Anna Staender

Sina Blassnig

Laia Castro Herrero

Yannis Theocharis

Patrick F. A. van Erkel

Jörg Matthes

Karolina Koc-Michalska

Alon Zoizner

Desiree Steppat

Edda Humprecht

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